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Government
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Health Policy news looks at exchanges, Medicaid expansion decisions
ProPublica’s Tracy Weber and Charles Ornstein, also AHCJ’s president, lay out in maps how various Health Policy mandates will play…
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Election 2012: What do we know about the fate of Health Policy?
Joanne Kenen, AHCJ’s Health Policy topic leader, earlier discussed five potential outcomes of the election. Given what we now know…
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A quick Obamacare election recap – or ‘precap’
So the election is finally here. What do we know about the fate of “Obamacare?” As I write this on…
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Investigation: Medtronic paid millions to surgeons; ghostwrote papers
Over at the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel and MedPage Today, John Fauber updates Side Effects, his long-running investigation into conflicts of…
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AHCJ member speaks to attorneys about information in public health crises
This is a guest post from AHCJ member Rose Hoban, R.N., M.P.H. Related Guidance on the release of information concerning…
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Immigrant health gets spotlight at workshop
More than 50 journalists gathered at AHCJ’s fall workshop in San Antonio to understand and better report stories on the…
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State countdown: Fate of exchanges after elections
Just days after the November elections, states will have to make final (or reasonably final) decisions about whether they are…
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Resources break down candidates’ views on health care, what matters to voters
Here are two more resources before the presidential debate and the final weeks of trying to untangle the health policy…
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Fla. database intended to stop prescription drug abuse is largely unused
After years of increasing scrutiny as it sat at what appeared to the epicenter of the national prescription painkiller abuse…
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State budget crises translate into cuts to oral health care
Medicaid dental benefits for poor adults often end up on the chopping block when states are facing hard times. While…